Catherine Anne
Catherine Anne O'Hara OOC (born on March 4 1954) is a Canadian-American actress and comedian. O'Hara has been the recipient of many distinctions which include an award from the Genie Award and a Golden Globe Award. O'Hara also received two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Canadian Screen Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2018 she was named an Officer of Canada. In 2020, she won the Governor General's Performing Arts Performing Arts Lifetime Artistic Achievement Awards. O'Hara was first noticed as an actor in the year 1974 as a member of The Second City improvisational comedy troupe in Toronto. Along with John Candy, O'Hara was part of the main cast for the sitcom Coming Up Rosie (1975-1978). In the next year, O'Hara and Candy began working in the sketch comedy show Second City Television (1976-1984) in which she received the attention of critics for both her work as a comic actor and writer, winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for an Variety Series in 1981. O'Hara was appointed to the Second City artistic advisory board in 2022. She was joined by Steve Carell, Dwayne Colbert and Tina Fey.




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